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arxiv: 1201.1975 · v1 · pith:KW6FH2GHnew · submitted 2012-01-10 · 🧮 math.CA · math-ph· math.MP

When physics helps mathematics: calculation of the sophisticated multiple integral

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There exists a remarkable connection between the quantum mechanical Landau-Zener problem and purely classical-mechanical problem of a ball rolling on a Cornu spiral. This correspondence allows us to calculate a complicated multiple integral, a kind of multi-dimensional generalization of Fresnel integrals. A direct method of calculation is also considered but found to be successful only in some low-dimensional cases. As a byproduct of this direct method, an interesting new integral representation for $\zeta(2)$ is obtained.

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